Ukrainian diplomats are actively working to ensure that the meeting of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with U.S. President Donald Trump should take place before a possible meeting of the head of the White House with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which Kremlin slates before the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7-8, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Konstiantyn Yeliseyev has said.

"At the moment, our diplomats are actively working to ensure that this meeting is held as soon as possible, but it is fundamentally important that it should really take place before the upcoming meeting between President Trump and the Russian president," he said in an interview with hromadske.ua.

Yeliseyev noted that the preparation for the meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and the United States was one of the goals of the recent visit of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin to Washington, where he held meetings, in particular with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and adviser to the head of the White House on national security issues Raymond McMaster.

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